This will at least set the "selected" alt symbol to be the same as the String symbol on the normal popups.

Have done a bit of testing to figure out the unselected symbols...

I have several different plists that accomplish transparency for the BG method and still leave some amount of control over these. Can't quite figure out what's going on in your's.

Let me know if you'd like me to try and alter a plist of mine to try and come up with something that works as best as possible with your theme!

Either way, I'll definitely play around with your's a little more and see what I can figure out...

WOW, man this is very very friendly. Yes in case you could alter one of yours, that would be more than perfect...Thank you very much for that! I will send u a PM with the complete CB in case u wanna try - WOW again & thanks again for this great support.

Thank you Phatmartino for your incredible support. I love our keybord...and this is just because of u! Thanks
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I was playing around with the .plist files and I'm starting to get the hang of it.
I still do have a slight problem I can't figure out though.
I want a completely transparet background (which I've figured out)
but then I want to just simply change the colour of the keyboard to a different colour.
I'm confused as to what kind of code I need to write to get this to work.
(I don't know if I need to put <dict></dict>, <array></array>, <key></key>, etc)

I was playing around with the .plist files and I'm starting to get the hang of it.
I still do have a slight problem I can't figure out though.
I want a completely transparet background (which I've figured out)
but then I want to just simply change the colour of the keyboard to a different colour.
I'm confused as to what kind of code I need to write to get this to work.
(I don't know if I need to put <dict></dict>, <array></array>, <key></key>, etc)

Thanks

Hey, happy to try and help. Are you saying that you have the background transparent already and now want to change the color of the keys?

Feel free to post a screenshot of what you have if you like and describe what you still want to do...

Yeah, if you take a look at the beginning of the first post there is a template pack (Hex colors) that has the custom color definitions set up to describe what they are used to theme. It's not quite as simplified as you mentioned, but download if you can and take a look at least. That system of naming the custom colors can be really helpful to looking further into the plist and understanding where and why it's applied.

I personally have only ever just attached images and files directly to my posts, you can attach up to 15 files per post. Not positive what the benefit is of uploading somewhere else and then linking here. (seems like an unnecessary extra step).

Either way, feel free to ask any more questions necessary and I can also try to get a simplified plist together to help out if needed!

So... I tried looking at the code and playing around a little bit more..
Haha I actually went further away from the solution I was looking for..
What confuses me is all the terms inside each <string> in 'CustomColor'.
At first I thought 'UIKBColorKeyBlueRow1GradientStart' would be used to change the colors of the keys, but it doesn't seem to show me anything different.

Also, is it hard to make the rounded endges of each individual keys? The creator of Color Keyboard had some really nice designs where the keys were more "ovally" rather than the rounded-edge rectangles.
If this is too hard to implement, then that's okay.

I attached the screenshot of my current keyboard. (Sorry, last time I replied I only saw a "attach picture" and it only asked me for a link)

Thanks again,

Originally Posted by Phatmartino

Yeah, if you take a look at the beginning of the first post there is a template pack (Hex colors) that has the custom color definitions set up to describe what they are used to theme. It's not quite as simplified as you mentioned, but download if you can and take a look at least. That system of naming the custom colors can be really helpful to looking further into the plist and understanding where and why it's applied.

I personally have only ever just attached images and files directly to my posts, you can attach up to 15 files per post. Not positive what the benefit is of uploading somewhere else and then linking here. (seems like an unnecessary extra step).

Either way, feel free to ask any more questions necessary and I can also try to get a simplified plist together to help out if needed!

Hey, if you would, try checking out section 2 (Custom Color Definition) in the first post guide part. Hopefully it should answer questions about what your looking at in the custom color part of the plist... And maybe ask questions beyond that. It's a fair amount to describe...

I intend on eventually making the guide a little quicker to navigate to answer specific questions, but for now it's at least intended to offer the info needed kind of in the order you need it, but browse past the first part about the background method at least (you shouldn't really need any of that info).

Thank you Phatmartino for your incredible support. I love our keybord...and this is just because of u! Thanks
ahem...I have put your name on my Deviantart page and linked to that thread to let the people know of this great documentation h1 Colorkeyboard by ~henftling on deviantART

Thanks man

Can you guys please share the trick?
I am having the same exact issue in Leg1on theme's color keyboard and would like to fix it.
Thanks in advance!!

Originally Posted by Phatmartino

If you're talking about the key "foregrounds", It looks like he's using the BG image method. If you're not familiar with it yet, and have the means to create the entire keyboard in Photoshop or like program, that method allows far more versatility than the hex code colors alone...

Can you guys please share the trick?
I am having the same exact issue in Leg1on theme's color keyboard and would like to fix it.
Thanks in advance!!

Can you please provide more details on how to use this method?

Absolutely, though I wasn't able to entirely figure out the problem with h1's plist, I ended up altering a plist of my own to work with his images. I can take a look at the leg 1 on plist and see what I can figure out...

I believe the plist I used was very similar to the one I included in the first post on this thread (Background Method). There are also a few more instructions included in that .zip, and includes screens of all of the native layouts that need to be created. The first section of the guide on BG method should explain the basics at least.

Let me know if you've already looked at that stuff and still have a lot of questions...

Absolutely, though I wasn't able to entirely figure out the problem with h1's plist, I ended up altering a plist of my own to work with his images. I can take a look at the leg 1 on plist and see what I can figure out...

I believe the plist I used was very similar to the one I included in the first post on this thread (Background Method). There are also a few more instructions included in that .zip, and includes screens of all of the native layouts that need to be created. The first section of the guide on BG method should explain the basics at least.

Let me know if you've already looked at that stuff and still have a lot of questions...

Happy to help however I can!

I almost got it to work, but now it seems there are two fonts overlapping each other...look at the "W". It shows the Helvetica and the CaviarDreams fonts.

Took me awhile just to get the whole theme downloaded. I've never seen one so emense!

Anyway, just with a bit of playing around, I should be able to help. This plist is quite like the h1, and would take a good bit of tweaking and testing to try and figure out the culprit while leaving what needs to remain... Should be able to do the same as I did for h1 though, and already have a plist working with leg1on. Just need to fine tune a few hex values. Most of the time remaining will be a lot of respringing.

Also, most of this type of themes skin the passcode entry NumberPad with a bg image to match the rest of the keys, while this one leaves the native hex color Npad. I need to remove the values in my plist that make these elements transparent, so I'll just change them to be hex colors that match the theme as best I can.

I'll attach the new plist as soon as I have it finished for any who need it to be able to just replace the original.

The Alt Pop unselected text is controlled by the transparent symbol value for the normal "unpressed" qwerty keys, so what's pictured is nearly all you can do. Also pictured, because the selected symbol is controlled by the normal popup black symbol value, I tried going with eyedropped blues from the spacebar "lights" for the key fg...

and tried to match the keys for the NumberPad and use the same blues for the "pressed" symbols...

Let me know if you'd prefer any of the hex colors to be tweaked, they can all be easily changed.